A statement that flamenco's roots are ancient certainly is defensible, but the concept of flamenco as a form--as a defined conceptual nugget--is decidedly post-baroque. I-IV-V progressions are as old as music itself, but you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that blues or rockabilly is medieval.
Best, Eugene At 12:16 PM 12/13/2004, Carl Donsbach wrote: >I think that as a folk medium it predates the baroque era, probably going >well back into the middle ages. But how much effect western European >baroque and later musics had on flamenco's musical enclave is a matter of >conjecture. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
